Sorry if you go blind!
Posted on 09/03/2008 9:46:21 PM PDT by kristinn
One of Barack Obama's elite fundraisers from the anti-American group Code Pink attempted to storm the stage last night during Republican vice presidential nominee Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's acceptance speech at the GOP convention in St. Paul.
Jodie Evans, one of a group of about 500 top financiers who have bundled tens of thousands of dollars for the Obama campaign was seized by the Secret Service after she had made her way to side of the stage and and started to yell at Palin.
The Washington Post reported on the incident:
10:45 p.m. A pair of Code Pink activists just got to the very edge of the stage and were a moment away from apparently running on stage, right by the Kentucky slot on the floor next to a host of McCain's most senior staffers.
Secret Service men grabbed them at last minute and literally dragged them out.
--Paul Kane
Evans has bundled between $50,000 and $100,000 for Obama as well as contributing the maximum $2300 to Obama's presidential primary campaign. She co-hosted Obama's breakout Hollywood fundraiser at the start of his campaign in February 2007.
As a bundler, Evans has been given perks that include regular briefings by top campaign staffers on policy and private meetings with Obama and his vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
Evans is infamous in conservative and military family circles for publicly endorsing the terrorists in Iraq against the American soldiers who toppled Saddam Hussein and have fought to keep free Iraq from falling to the hands of Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups and nations.
Evans has worked with state sponsors of terrorism including the governments of Castro's Cuba and the the late Saddam Hussein. She has also met with Venezualan dictator Hugo Chavez and has professed her "love" for him.
Evans has led Code Pink's campaign against the Marines in Berkeley where the group has called the Marines "assassins" and Evans herself has compared the Marine recruiting center in Berkeley to a porn shop.
Code Pink issued a press release a short while ago bragging about their attempt to disrupt Palin's speech:
Co-founders Medea Benjamin and Jodie Evans, who were given their tickets to the speech by a Republican delegate who was frustrated with the Republican party and Sarah Palin, caught the attention of Palin with their banners and shouting about 15 minutes into her speech. Palin stopped talking for a moment to turn to look at them.
After another moment, security then grabbed Benjamin and Evans and escorted them one at a time out of the St. Paul Xcel Center, where they were held until the end of the Palin’s speech and told they would be arrested if they tried to reenter. They were told they’d committed an arrestable offense but they were not charged.
“Sarah Palin is not a woman’s choice,” said Jodie Evans, co-founder, moments after being released. “That’s it.”
CODEPINK is a nonpartisan women’s peace group. They vehemently oppose Palin’s pro-war, anti-environment, anti-choice positions. More details to come. For questions, please call Jodie Evans at 310-913-4821.
Obama has rejected several requests from troop support groups that he renounce Evans for her support of the terrorists in Iraq.
Where is an abusive cop with a tazer when you need one?
bttt
I'm betting she had a press pass issued by AP or some other MSM outlet.
Sound like she was dropped on her head one too many times as akid.
Did you notice the PBS feed had several backside shots of her with the teleprompter during her speech? I hadn’t noticed it during Rudy’s beforehand. I’m thinking it is a slight toward her to show she has to use them. All of them do, of course.
The story here is not that a CodePink member got so close to the stage but what msm pass was given to her and by what member of PMSNBC.
Glad to see the "Secret Service" is so alert.(/sarc) How the hell did these criminals get within 100 feet of Sarah Palin?
Security better wake up. The psychopath left is not taking this defeat lying down and someone is going to be hurt by these rat bastards before the election is over.
I didn't think that bundling was illegal. This gal may have just paved her way to her own private cell.
NSSE?
Whoever this a&&hole is, he needs a visit from a few of the boys at the Dew Drop Inn.
It was the cutest thing, we backed it up so we could watch it again!
Sorry if you go blind!
Obama financier, eh?
Buh-bye looney left.
Thank you!
Now...is this delegate’s head gonna roll over this?
No but if she started to field dress the two old sows out of habit after the kill.. now that would be cool
The women Jodie Evans uses as reference points are not women, they are drones who do not want to have babies or families, unless the situation is "perfect" ( you know , they have to have a drone gurly man who does what he is told, a gurly man submissive.)
The upshot is that Palin exemplfies what a real woman is, and that is particularly threatening to the pro abortion, Leftist Utopian crowd, so much so that Palin's life might be in danger. The Jodie Evanses of the world have turned into desperate, scary beasts, ghoul like figures who pale when compared to Palin.
Poor Sandra Evans does not even know what a woman is.
She is in denial.
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